In 1940 due to general Soviet policy, a Cyrillic alphabet eventually became common and has remained so to this day, though some Kyrgyz still use the Arabic alphabet.

At the end of the 18th century an emancipation movement known as the Transylvanian School ( Şcoala Ardeleană ) formed, which emphasized the ancient Roman origins of the Romanian people and created the modern Latin-based Romanian alphabet ( which eventually supplanted an earlier Cyrillic script ).

At its beginnings it worked as a portal redirecting to the Romanian Wikipedia, but it eventually began allowing content ( although only intended for Cyrillic Moldovan / Romanian as it was used before 1989 in the Moldavian SSR ), starting big editing wars and endless discussion.

The values of many of the letters are thought to have been displaced under Cyrillic influence, or to have become confused through the early spread to different dialects, so that the original values are not always clear.

Cyrillic gradually replaced Glagolitic as the alphabet of the Old Church Slavonic language, which became the official language of the Bulgarian Empire and later spread to the Eastern Slav lands of Kievan Rus '.

The mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius was especially important as their development of the Cyrillic alphabet allowed the spread of worship in the Old Church Slavonic language.

But throughout the past century, due to Soviet influence, the alphabet used to write Bukhori included Latin ( 1920's ) then the Cyrillic ( 1940 ).

Sakib " Šako " Polumenta ( Serbian Cyrillic: Шако Полумента, born March 27, 1968 in Bijelo Polje, SR Montenegro, Yugoslavia ) is a Montenegrin singer, popular throughout the former Yugoslav republics.

Cyrillic is one of the most widely used modern alphabetic scripts, and is notable for its use in Slavic languages and also for other languages within the former Soviet Union.

The adoption of the Cyrillic script a short time later, almost simultaneously with most Soviet republics, suggests political reasons.

The most recent Mongolian alphabet is a based on the Cyrillic script, more specifically the Russian alphabet plus the letters, Өө / ö / and Үү / ü /.

The most commonly practiced style, Khöömii ( written in Cyrillic as Хөөмий ), can be divided up into the following categories ..

Different orthographies have been developed ( in most cases using variants of the Cyrillic script ), and a number of different grammatical standards exist, based on regional dialects.

However, scripts other than Latin were used much earlier, most notably the indigenous Bosnian Cyrillic called Bosančica ( literally " Bosnian script ") and dates back to the late 10th and early 11th centuries.

Bulgaria also gave the world the Cyrillic script, the second most widely used alphabet in the world, which originated in these two schools in the tenth century AD.

Many political parties in opposition to the authoritarian rule of President Niyazov continued to use the Cyrillic alphabet on websites and publications, most likely to distance themselves from the alphabet that Niyazov created.

( Cyrillic is the official script of the administration in Serbia and Republika Srpska but Latin script is most widely used in everyday life ).

Czajkowski and its feminine variant Czajkowska, Czajkowskaja or Czajkowskaya is a Slavic surname which, in addition to this, its Polish form, is most frequently seen as Tchaikovsky, its French transliteration from Cyrillic.

The common Slavic voiced velar plosive is represented in most Cyrillic orthographies by the letter ‹ Г ›, called ге ghe in most languages.

In 1939 the Bolsheviks imposed the Cyrillic script on most of the non-Russian languages, including the languages of Central Asia that in the late 1920s had been given Latin alphabets to replace Arabic ones.

Zhe is used in the alphabets of all Slavic languages using a Cyrillic alphabet, and of most non-Slavic languages which use a Cyrillic alphabet.

This is due to characters being placed in a special order ( 128 codepoints apart from the Latin letter they look most similar to ), which, however, does not correspond to the alphabetic order in any language that is written in Cyrillic and necessitates the use of lookup tables to perform sorting.

In most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet – such as Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian – the Cyrillic letter A represents the open front unrounded vowel.

Although use of Ä ä ( also used in Tatar, Turkmen, and Gagauz ) seems to be a simpler alternative as the schwa is absent in most character sets, particularly Turkish encoding, it was reintroduced ; the schwa had existed continuously from 1929 to 1991 to represent Azeri's most-common vowel, in both post-Arabic alphabets ( Latin and Cyrillic ) of Azerbaijan.

The Cyrillic letter Ka looks very similar, and corresponds to the Latin letter K but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase.

The capital Cyrillic letter En looks very similar to the capital Latin letter H but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase.

The capital Cyrillic letter Te ( Т т ) looks the same as the capital Latin letter T ( T t ) but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

Cyrillic numerals were a numbering system derived from the Cyrillic alphabet, used by South and East Slavic peoples.

Until 1945, Bulgarian orthography did not reveal this alternation and used the original Old Slavic Cyrillic letter yat (), which was commonly called двойно е ( dvoyno e ) at the time, to express the historical yat vowel or at least root vowels displaying the ya – e alternation.

The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with ( at least 10 ) letters peculiar to Slavic languages being derived from the Glagolitic.

A corresponding term is sometimes used in Slavic languages, in Serbian is otadžbina or отаџбина in Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Bosnian Otadžbina ( Отаџбина ), Macedonian татковина ( tatkovina ), Bulgarian татковина ( tatkovina ) as well as otechestvo, Czech otčina ( although the normal Czech term for " homeland " is vlast ), in Polish ojczyzna ( besides macierz " motherland "), Russian otechestvo ( отечество ) or otchizna ( отчизна ) ( although rodina " motherland " is more common ).

The Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, based primarily on the Greek uncial writing of the 9th century, are the oldest known Slavic alphabets and were created by the two brothers and their students, in order to translate the Bible and other texts into the Slavic languages.

The reasons are the apparent absence of a written language ( Cyrillic script, created about 863 was specifically for Slavic adoption ) and the remoteness of East Slavic lands.

Selo ( Cyrillic: село ; ) is a Slavic word meaning " village " in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine.

* Ya ( Cyrillic ) ( Я ), a Cyrillic alphabet letter ( which, on its own, means " I " in several Slavic languages )

In addition, the oldest South Slavic document is the Bosnian statehood charter from 1189, written by Ban Kulin of Bosnia in Bosnian Cyrillic.

The Gorani or Goranci ( Cyrillic: Горани or Горанци, meaning Highlanders, ) are a South Slavic ethnic group inhabiting the Gora region-the triangle between Albania, Kosovo and Rep. Macedonia.

In Italian, š, ž, and č are routinely used much as in Finnish and Estonian to transcribe Cyrillic and other Slavic ( except Polish ) names, since in native Italian words, the sounds represented by these letters must be followed by a vowel.

It includes many Cyrillic and Glagolitic manuscripts from 21 countries and from various monasteries on Mount Athos, Greece, including the entire Slavic collection of the Hilandar Monastery.

By now, at latest, Serbia must have received the Cyrillic alphabet and Slavic religious text, already familiar but perhaps not yet preferred to Greek.

Veles ( Cyrillic: Велес ; ; ; Old Russian and Old Church Slavonic: Велесъ ) also known as Volos () ( listed as a Christian saint in Old Russian texts ) is a major Slavic supernatural force of earth, waters and the underworld, associated with dragons, cattle, magic, musicians, wealth and trickery.

The Serbian, Bulgarian and Slavic Macedonian name of the city is Kostur ( Cyrillic: Костур ).

Tsargrad ( Old Church Slavonic: Цѣсарьградъ ; Church Slavonic ; Царьгра ̀ дъ, ; Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian and Slovene: Carigrad or Цариград, depending on their alphabets ( or Tsarigrad as an alternative Latin transliteration of Cyrillic ); ; ; ; also rendered as Czargrad and Tzargrad ; see Tsar ) is a Slavic name for the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, commonly known as the " Byzantine Empire ".

A more recent example is the controversial Book of Veles, which claims to be an authentic written record of old Slavic religion from the 9th or 10th century CE, written in Cyrillic, whereas it cannot be proven that the Slavs had any sort of writing system before Christianisation, let alone that they used the Cyrillic alphabet ( named, of course, after St Cyril, who coined the first known writing system for Slavs when he was sent together with his brother Methodius to baptise them in the 9th century ).